﻿Goals of the municipal nursery are to: provide training in nursery techniques and micro gardening to unemployed youth and women in the neighbourhood, render the neighbourhood/city more aesthetically pleasing, and grow plants with which to green the city, thereby increasing air quality and providing sound and heat control.

On the 18th of December 2010 a community forum to launch the project took place at the site for the municipal nursery. There were about a hundred participants including those representing the Mayor of Grand Yoff, neighbourhood inhabitants, youth and women’s associations and neighbourhood notables.

At the beginning of January the nursery received a water pump, a container (to house the administration and materials for the nursery), and plants to be used as windbreakers, reinforce the fence, and of course beautify!

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